Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed
Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

5 out of 5 stars

Reaction to an unendurable:<br />no risk's over the top

By
Larry
on
12-01-16

Tales from Beyond the Pale, Season One, Volume 5

Johnny Boy & The Demon Huntsman

By:
J. T. Petty,
Ashley Thorpe

Narrated by:
Larry Fessenden,
Amy Seimetz,
Shea Whigham,
and others

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
32

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Story

4 out of 5 stars
30

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed
Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

1 out of 5 stars

Hit or miss

By
KL
on
03-04-16

Tales from Beyond the Pale, Season One, Vol. 3

'Is This Seat Taken?' and 'The Grandfather'

By:
Sarah Langan,
Graham Reznick

Narrated by:
Larry Fessenden

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Story

4 out of 5 stars
27

In "Is this Seat Taken?", a young man meets an alluring woman on the Long Island Railroad and slowly comes to realize they have a common past... but maybe not the one she is recollecting. In "The Grandfather", a perfectly ordinary grandfather feeds his perfectly ordinary cat, waiting for his perfectly happy family to arrive for a perfectly pleasant afternoon… until an unfortunate revelation puts them all on a tragic path, if the grandfather can’t unravel their perfect mess first.

Tales Season Two delves even further beyond the pale with eight explosive tales to tickle your fancy and curdle your blood. The series is produced by filmmakers Larry Fessenden & Glenn McQuaid; associate producers Lisa Wisely, Jenn Wexler. Joe Maggio's "Ram King" takes place in a nameless mountain village, just 16 years after the Black Death, in which Lassa, an inquisitive young goatherd, is falsely accused of witchcraft by the child of an all-powerful village elder. Lassa looks to the Ram King for comfort, a mythical beast, half-man, half-ram, with skin of blue flames…

4 out of 5 stars

great need more

By
Henry Jones
on
09-10-15

Barricade

Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4

By:
Larry Fessenden

Narrated by:
Roxanne Benjamin,
Jeremy Gardner,
Tony Todd,
and others

Length: 22 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Story

4 out of 5 stars
9

A couple honeymooning in rural Pennsylvania is visited by two desperate men fleeing legions of tiny creatures they've unleashed from underground.

The Vampire Party

Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4

By:
Larry Fessenden

Narrated by:
Lance Reddick,
AJ Bowen,
Pat Healy,
and others

Length: 30 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Two independent filmmakers choose the wrong party to attend while promoting their scary movie in Los Angeles.

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed
Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

5 out of 5 stars

Reaction to an unendurable:<br />no risk's over the top

By
Larry
on
12-01-16

Tales from Beyond the Pale, Season One, Volume 5

Johnny Boy & The Demon Huntsman

By:
J. T. Petty,
Ashley Thorpe

Narrated by:
Larry Fessenden,
Amy Seimetz,
Shea Whigham,
and others

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
32

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
30

Story

4 out of 5 stars
30

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed
Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

1 out of 5 stars

Hit or miss

By
KL
on
03-04-16

Tales from Beyond the Pale, Season One, Vol. 3

'Is This Seat Taken?' and 'The Grandfather'

By:
Sarah Langan,
Graham Reznick

Narrated by:
Larry Fessenden

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Story

4 out of 5 stars
27

In "Is this Seat Taken?", a young man meets an alluring woman on the Long Island Railroad and slowly comes to realize they have a common past... but maybe not the one she is recollecting. In "The Grandfather", a perfectly ordinary grandfather feeds his perfectly ordinary cat, waiting for his perfectly happy family to arrive for a perfectly pleasant afternoon… until an unfortunate revelation puts them all on a tragic path, if the grandfather can’t unravel their perfect mess first.

Tales Season Two delves even further beyond the pale with eight explosive tales to tickle your fancy and curdle your blood. The series is produced by filmmakers Larry Fessenden & Glenn McQuaid; associate producers Lisa Wisely, Jenn Wexler. Joe Maggio's "Ram King" takes place in a nameless mountain village, just 16 years after the Black Death, in which Lassa, an inquisitive young goatherd, is falsely accused of witchcraft by the child of an all-powerful village elder. Lassa looks to the Ram King for comfort, a mythical beast, half-man, half-ram, with skin of blue flames…

4 out of 5 stars

great need more

By
Henry Jones
on
09-10-15

Barricade

Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4

By:
Larry Fessenden

Narrated by:
Roxanne Benjamin,
Jeremy Gardner,
Tony Todd,
and others

Length: 22 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Story

4 out of 5 stars
9

A couple honeymooning in rural Pennsylvania is visited by two desperate men fleeing legions of tiny creatures they've unleashed from underground.

The Vampire Party

Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4

By:
Larry Fessenden

Narrated by:
Lance Reddick,
AJ Bowen,
Pat Healy,
and others

Length: 30 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Two independent filmmakers choose the wrong party to attend while promoting their scary movie in Los Angeles.

Frozen Frights, Volume 1

By:
Icebox Radio Theater

Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
69

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Story

4 out of 5 stars
62

"You never think to look at the weather when you ice fish." So begins one man's amazing journey onto frozen lakes of Minnesota. Trapped by a vicious storm, a fisherman holds on against the horrifying thing that comes for him out of the storm.

One night in Montreal, an ageless man hires a young female translator to help settle mysterious debts with an array of desperate characters.

Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories, Volume One (Dramatized)

By:
Dennis Etchison,
Steve Nubie,
Max Allan Collins,
and others

Narrated by:
Malcolm McDowell

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
122

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
113

Story

4 out of 5 stars
114

"A Fungus Among Us" by Steve Nubie: A mysterious fungus is causing people to act like zombies before their heads explode and spore - like snakes ooze out of their brains! "Wolf" by Max Allan Collins: A modern-day werewolf whose appetite for beautiful young women vacationing at a lodge retreat has guests and workers panic-stricken. "The Late Shift" by Dennis Etchison: A company takes flesh-peddling to a whole new level. Plus three more original short stories, fully dramatized to thrill and chill you.

H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound, directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Dennis Paoli, with music by Richard Band. The allure of a jade amulet proves troublesome for two aristocratic grave robbers. Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid's award-winning
Tales from Beyond the Pale, now entering its sixth year, has produced over 40 audio dramas from a wide array of today's leading genre writers and directors. Season three was produced by Larry Fessenden, Glenn McQuaid, and Jenn Wexler.

A writer reveals his dark past to an unfortunate stranger on a long walk up a snowy mountain at dawn.

Conviction

Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4

By:
Glenn McQuaid

Narrated by:
Lance Reddick,
Cooper Rich,
AJ Bowen,
and others

Length: 28 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4 out of 5 stars
8

During a weekend away with his powerful grandfather, a young boy grapples with enlightenment and demons.

Frozen Frights, Volume 2

By:
Icebox Radio Theater

Narrated by:
Tom Bement,
Jeffrey Adams,
Aela Mackintosh,
and others

Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
36

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
34

Story

4 out of 5 stars
34

Enjoy these original, full-cast tales of terror set in the frigid Northland, including The Demon, The Woods, The Monster in the Ashes, and more.

4 out of 5 stars

Tough Volume Levels

By
Shawn
on
06-11-14

Sweet Tea and Sympathy

By:
Molly Harper

Narrated by:
Amanda Ronconi

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,197

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,121

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,109

Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot's rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society and made elegance and glamour her business. She's riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she's blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start - and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.

4 out of 5 stars

Thank you Ms. Harper

By
green ice cream garden
on
11-30-17

Publisher's Summary

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. Volume 4 features "This Oracle Moon" by filmmaker Jeff Buhler and "Trawler" by Glenn McQuaid. The series is produced by filmmakers Larry Fessenden, Glenn McQuaid, and Lisa Wisely.

In "This Oracle Moon", writer/director Jeff Buhler takes us on a startling journey across the galaxies. A rescue team of astronauts is dispatched to a distant moon in hopes of reclaiming survivors from an ill-fated exploratory mission sent six years prior. When no survivors are found, the rescuers turn their attention to the elusive creatures inhabiting the nearby hills for answers. Starring Ron Perlman and Doug Jones, together for the first time since the Hellboy movies.

In "Trawler", written and directed by Glenn McQuaid, something lurks out there in the salty brine. A bizarre tale of mayhem and menace on the high seas, "Trawler" takes us to the edge of sanity and beyond. Featuring the voice talents of Christopher Denham (Shutter Island, Headspace), A.J. Bowen (The Signal, A Horrible Way to Die, House of the Devil) and Larry Fessenden (Habit, I Sell the Dead).

Critic Reviews

“Fans of shows from ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ to ‘This American Life’ [who] take their stylistic cues from radio’s glory days should enjoy these macabre R-rated tales.” (
The New York Times)

"ONE OF THE YEAR’s TOP 10. The team at Glass Eye Pix and the filmmakers they’ve assembled are very much crafting great little spookfests that remind us why we love horror storytelling in general.” (
Fangoria)